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Qualitative research methods in mental health and psychotherapy: a guide for students and practitioners
- Authors:
- HARPER David, THOMPSON Andrew R., (eds.)
- Publisher:
- Wiley-Blackwell
- Publication year:
- 2011
- Pagination:
- 272p.
- Place of publication:
- Oxford
This book provides an introduction to the qualitative methods most commonly used in mental health and psychotherapy contexts. It is aimed at those wanting to better understand the papers they read as well as those looking for specific guidance for their own research. The editors and writers draw on their own experience as qualitative researchers, clinical trainers, and mental health practitioners. The book provides: guidance on conducting a qualitative study from across a range of approaches; guidance on how to review and appraise existing qualitative literature; how to choose the most appropriate method; and how to consider ethical issues. The authors explain how specific methods have been applied to questions in mental health research and include examples drawn from recent research, including research with service users, in mental health practice and in psychotherapy. The book is in three main parts. The first introduces the basic tenets, the second includes chapters on each of a range of approaches, and the third addresses research quality and future directions. Methods discussed include: interpretative phenomenological analysis; existentialist-informed hermeneutic phenomenology; grounded theory methods; discourse analysis; narrative psychology; ethnomethodology/conversation analysis; Q methodological research; and thematic analysis.
Children behaving badly: peer violence between children and young people
- Authors:
- BARTER Christine, BERRIDGE David, (eds.)
- Publisher:
- Wiley-Blackwell
- Publication year:
- 2011
- Place of publication:
- Chichester
This book comprises a collection of contributions from different authors which together address the complexity of peer violence from a range of disciplines and perspectives. The book spans the childhood spectrum of peer violence from early childhood to late adolescence. It is divided into 4 parts: peer violence in different contexts; different forms of peer violence; understanding peer violence; and responding to peer violence. The 4 parts together provide a progression though divergent topics including nurseries, racist murders, knife crime, teenage partner violence, children in care, and gangs, and address different issues of diversity, including racism, gender, and homophobia. The concluding chapter brings together the views expressed throughout the book. The book recognises that the problems of peer violence are likely to have been distorted, not least by the media, and stresses the importance of seeing peer violence as related to a wider set of problems. It aims to challenge many populist and damaging representations of youth violence and the associated narratives of modern youth as essentially 'evil'.
Children's testimony: a handbook of psychological research and forensic practice
- Editors:
- LAMB Michael E., et al, (eds.)
- Publisher:
- Wiley-Blackwell
- Publication year:
- 2011
- Pagination:
- 480p.
- Place of publication:
- Chichester
- Edition:
- 2nd ed.
The second edition of Children's Testimony is a fully up-to-date resource for practitioners and researchers working in forensic contexts and concerned with children's ability to provide reliable testimony about abuse. It reflects the substantial progress made in the field of child psychology over the past decade and includes the results of ongoing international research. The book is written for both practitioners and researchers working in forensic contexts, including investigative interviewers, police officers, lawyers, judges, expert witnesses, and social workers. The book explores a range of issues involved with children's testimony and their ability to provide reliable testimony about experienced or witnessed events, including abuse. It avoids jargon and highly technical language and includes a comprehensive range of contributions from an international group of practitioners and researchers to ensure topicality and relevance. This second edition of the book is designed to be a resource for lawyers, judges, interviewers and investigators, expert witnesses, social workers, academics and researchers working in forensic contexts with the testimony of children.
Real world research
- Author:
- ROBSON Colin
- Publisher:
- Wiley-Blackwell
- Publication year:
- 2011
- Pagination:
- 608p.
- Place of publication:
- Chichester
- Edition:
- 3rd ed.
The author provides a route-map of the steps needed to carry out a piece of applied social research to a high professional standard. He provides rigorous and fully up-to-date coverage of contemporary issues and debates while bringing together materials and approaches from different social science disciplines. The text covers quantitative and qualitative approaches, as well as their combination in mixed-method designs but the focus is always on the practical. The advice is aimed at the newcomer and established researcher alike. A very extensive website, which is closely matched to the text, provides additional resources including many examples of research and further discussion of research issues, links to other useful resources and selected journal articles, annotated lists of further reading and a set of PowerPoint slides. This third edition is updated throughout and includes a new chapter on multi-strategy designs. There is increased coverage of ethical issues and a chapter on writing project proposals. Internet-based research is discussed both as a research tool and as a subject for research. The author also looks at evidence-based approaches, seeking to present a balanced assessment of their value.
Work and the mental health crisis in Britain
- Authors:
- WALKER Carl, FINCHAM Ben
- Publisher:
- Wiley-Blackwell
- Publication year:
- 2011
- Pagination:
- 196p.
- Place of publication:
- Chichester
There is longstanding interest in the relationship between mental health and work. This book suggests that the impact of neoliberal social and economic activity in the UK over recent years has meant the return of potentially debilitating forms of subjugation and exploitation. More people now struggle for fewer jobs of increasing intensity, reduced legal protection and lower real wages. The book, based on recent data gathered from employees and managers, challenges the cultural maxim that work benefits people with mental health difficulties, and illustrates how particular cultures and perceptions can contribute to a crisis of mental well–being at work. It fills a need for an up–to–date, detailed work that explores the ways that mental health and work experiences are constructed, negotiated, constrained and at times, marginalised. It is designed for academics and professionals who work in the mental health sphere, but also accessible to interested lay readers
Disability and discourse: analysing inclusive conversation with people with intellectual disabilities
- Author:
- WILLIAMS Val
- Publisher:
- Wiley-Blackwell
- Publication year:
- 2011
- Pagination:
- 257p.
- Place of publication:
- Chichester
This book applies and explains Conversation Analysis (CA), an established methodology for studying communication, to explore what happens during the everyday encounters of people with intellectual disabilities and the other people with whom they interact. It explores conversations and encounters from the lives of people with intellectual disabilities, and introduces the established methodology of Conversation Analysis, making it accessible and useful to a wide range of students, researchers and practitioners. The book adopts a discursive approach which looks at how people with intellectual disabilities use talk in real-life situations, while showing how such talk can be supported and developed, and follows people into the meetings and discussions that take place in self-advocacy and research contexts. It then offers insights into how people with learning disabilities can have a voice in their own affairs, in policy-making, and in research.
Reforming long-term care in Europe
- Editors:
- COSTA-FONT Joan, (ed.)
- Publisher:
- Wiley-Blackwell
- Publication year:
- 2011
- Pagination:
- 176p.
- Place of publication:
- Chichester
This book analyses the features and developments of long–term care, and its political reform agendas, in Europe. Each chapter focuses on a key question in the policy debate and offers a description and analysis of the different systems. Comparatively less studied countries, such as Eastern Europe, Italy, France and Spain are compared with reform practices in Germany, the UK, Netherlands and Sweden. Contents include: long-term care: a suitable case for social insurance; the long road to universalism, recent developments in the financing of long-term care in England; reforming long-term care policy in France: private–public complementarities; sustainability of comprehensive universal long-term care insurance in the Netherlands; social insurance for long-term care: an evaluation of the German model; long-term care in central and south-eastern Europe: challenges and perspectives in addressing a ‘new’ social risk; devolution, diversity and welfare reform: long-term care in the ‘Latin rim’; one uniform welfare state or a multitude of welfare municipalities: the evolution of local variation in Swedish elder care; reforming long-term care in Portugal: dealing with the multidimensional character of quality.
Parents who misuse drugs and alcohol: effective interventions in social work and child protection
- Authors:
- FORRESTER Donald, HARWIN Judith
- Publisher:
- Wiley-Blackwell
- Publication year:
- 2011
- Pagination:
- 249p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Chichester
Parental misuse of drugs and alcohol has come to be recognised as a major challenge for child and family services. It is no longer a small–scale problem that can be left to specialists but rather one that every professional working with children encounters on a regular basis. The authors present their own research, and draw on the wider literature to: offer a definition of “misuse” and “addiction” and the factors that influence the nature of misuse or addiction; review extensively the nature and impact of parental substance misuse on children and families using the latest evidence; explore how research and theories might help inform professionals or non–professionals assessing families affected by parents who misuse drugs or alcohol; provide an in–depth discussion of Motivational Interviewing, including a critical discussion of the challenges and limitations involved in using it in child and family settings; and consider the wider implications of the findings for practice and policy and argues that these responses can be used across the field of work with vulnerable children and their families. Primarily written to help professionals to develop best practice, the book is also aimed at policy makers, researchers, and non-professionals affected by parental substance misuse.